Bruce Seldon
78″ reach · +6.85% reach advantage · 81st percentile
40–8
Bruce Seldon has a reach of 78″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +6.85%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 81st percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Bruce Seldon — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-08-02. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | L | Fres Oquendo | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2009 | W | Gabe Brown | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2008 | W | Brad Gregory | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Kevin Johnson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2008 | W | Livin Castillo | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2007 | W | Jay Sweetman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Tye Fields | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Gerald Nobles | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2004 | W | Lenzie Morgan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Otis Tisdale | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1996 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Joe Hipp | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Tony Tucker | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1994 | W | Bill Corrigan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Tui Toia | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Nathaniel Fitch | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Greg Page | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1993 | W | Mike Robinson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Al Shoffner | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1993 | W | Alexander Popov | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | L | Tony Tubbs | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Percell Davis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Mike Dixon | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Larry Givens | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | Jimmy Taylor | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Dion Burgess | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Jesse Ferguson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1991 | L | Riddick Bowe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | L | Oliver McCall | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1991 | W | Percell Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Jose Ribalta | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | David Bey | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1990 | W | John Morton | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1990 | W | Tom Sandner | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Ossie Ocasio | Decision | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Danny Wofford | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Jerry Jones | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Amos Lisboa-Casillas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Lorenzo Canady | — | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Hassan Shabazz | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1989 | W | Isaac Poole | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Ezra Sellers | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Warren Thompson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Jesse McGhee | — | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Mike Robinson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1988 | W | Tyrone Barwell | — | 1 |
| 1988 | W | Joel McGraw | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Bruce Seldon — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-02
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.85%
78″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 53rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 29 of 48 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
40–8
48 bouts on record
Finish rate
90%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 91st percentile
The career, bout by bout
49 recorded bouts from 1988 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1988–2009
Longest unbeaten run
16
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1990
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
49
48 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Owen LeFranc Beck+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Jack Gardner+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- J. B. Williamson+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Mike Weaver+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Gregorio Peralta+6.94% 77″ reach · 82nd pct
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi+6.69% 71″ reach · 80th pct
- Ross Puritty+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
- Charles Shufford+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Bruce Seldon's record?
- 40–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 49 bouts individually.
- How many of Bruce Seldon's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 49. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Seldon sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing29 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Bruce Seldon vs Tony TuckerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1995 Longest unbeaten runsBruce Seldon went 16 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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